Journal of Agricultural Extension Management
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Socio Economic Impact of JFM in Bankura
Get PDFJoint Forest Management (JFM) is a new concept under which the Forest Department of the Government and the local communities jointly manage the state forest lands. In turn both share the responsibilities and benefits. The old custodial forest management systems developed and followed over a hundred years were rendered ineffective in the fifties and sixties due to various reason
Management Approach for Integrated Development of a Watershed
Get PDFWatershed is an area that has common drainage. In other words, it is a manageable hydrological unit. Since water is the most scarce resource of rainfed areas, it goes waste in the rainy season due to seepage and at the same time cause heavy damage to fertile land by soil erosion. In India, 80 percent of total rains in a year are seen in the month s of Jul y to September and the same percent of rain water is lost in run-off. The watershed unit provides an opportunity to harvest rain water falling in the area of its ridge lines and manage it for irrigation purpose. It also allow excess water to flow through a common drainage, thereby, avoiding excessive soil erosio
Extension through women and groups: an innovative approach of KVK gadag, Karnataka
Get PDFAgricultural extension in India, largely done by the public sector, is primarily aimed at short-term changes like adoption of the innovations with less emphasis on farmers\u27 capacity building, particularly on decision making in important aspects like farm management, combination and proportion of different enterprises towards diversification, timely switch-over from nonprofitable activities and the marketing aspects. Financial management of farm activities was also given less importance as compared to the production technologies. These efforts did not yield the desired results because the actual users of these intended technologies, who were women in most cases, were not directly involved. Thus, the current status of agricultural extension services could be summed up as largely in the public sector, operated in an interpersonal mode of select contact farmers and with low level of involvement of farmers in technology development and dissemination process. As it is substantially top-down, there is little scope for localised planning and action. Hence, several system constraints (ICAR, 1999) which have been listed below, have reduced the extension efficienc
Economic of Major Farming Systems in North Coastal Zone of Andhra Pradesh
Get PDFNorth Coastal Zone (NCZ) is characterized by rainfed agriculture and fertile soils suitable for raising a wide variety of crops round the year. Majority of the area in this zone is largely rainfed with meager irrigation sources. Nearly 80% of the farmers in this zone was adversely affected by drought conditions in the past 3-4 years, thereby, resulting in low crop productivity. Moreover, the adoption of scientific technologies in the crop production is on a low scale because of large scale illiteracy, lack of awareness on the mode of adoption of modern technologies and primitive outlook of the farming community. Hence, the farmer\u27s income is low and unstable than the maximum they can realize from the existing potentiality of the zone. Further, the diversification of agricultural activities is very low in this zone, which otherwise reduces the risk and help in stabilizing the farm income besides providing a source of employment throughout the year. Only 20% of the farming community in this zone are taking up allied activities of agriculture like poultry, sheep rearing and sericulture. Since agriculture among the farmers is mostly on rainfed condition, it is a highly risky proposition and it can be sustained by mixed farming - a type of farming that combines crop production with one/more enterprises of allied activities of agriculture. This mixed farming facilitates the farmers for better utilization of farm by-products, stabilizing the annual net income, effective utilization of family labour for longer periods in a year and reduces the risk in agribusiness, thereby paves the way for sustainable agricultural productio
Self-help groups for mobilizing tribal youth for entrepreneurship-the experience of Meghalaya N.Prakash
Get PDFThe involvement of Self Help Groups (SHGs) in community development activities has been appraised by the tribal people of Meghalaya. During the initial years of establishment the SHGs used to work in collaboration with Durbar Shnong i.e. the Village Council, for management of common property resources like water, pasture land, forest, village durbar land and others. But gradually the SHGs started concentrating efforts on the development of tribal youth to inculcate an attitude towards employment generation activities. This shift in dimension was supported by Bosco Reach Out, a Guwahati based voluntary organization that took active initiation in setting up at least one self-help group in the villages. The coordination and linkage maintained by this voluntary organization helped the selected SHG members undergo skill-based training programmes in different organizations like ICAR, RRTC etc. as per the aspirations of the members. This has helped the members of such SHGs to come up with a number of enterprises as their subsidiary source of income as well as employment generatio
Impact of watershed programme on the economy of the Farm households in Andhra Pradesh
Get PDFIn India, 67 percent of 143 million hectares of arable land which contributes 44 per cent to the food basket and supports 40 per cent of the population, depends on rain. Further, it is estimated that about 450 million bovine population are thriving on rainfed farming. Most of the areas under coarse cereals, oil seeds, cotton and even rice to a little ex tent are under rainfed situation. This indicates the need for substantial efforts both from research and development fronts to meet the increasing demand for food, shelter and clothing due to the steadily mounting demographic pressure coupled with decreasing ava il ability of per capita cultivable land. It is ironical that even after harnessing all the irrigation water resources (1 13 m. ha.) 50 per cent of cultivable land in India will continue to be rainfed. Hence, management of dry land area assumes prime position in Indi an Agriculture. (ltnal et al. , 1998
Training needs of input dealers on pesticidal application on cotton crop in Punjab
Get PDFCotton (Gossypium Sp.) \u27White Gold\u27 is a premier textile fibre crop and also the second most important non-conventional oilseed in the world. Punjab is one of the major cotton producing states in India and produces about one fifth of the total cotton in the country. Over ninety five per cent of the area is in the cotton belt which includes districts of Bathinda, Faridkot, Ferozepur, Mansa and Sangru
Private extension system: An analysis
Get PDFUnder the liberalized economy, farmers have to modify and change their attitude and practices to cope with the new environment created by The World Trade Organization. They have to adopt the strategy of diversification and combination of different agricultural enterprises to compete in the world market. Moreover, when agriculture grows and becomes highly commercialized, farmers would require specialized information. There is a need for quick, accurate, timely and specific information for the success of specialized farming. Specialized and quality production needs heavy investment, thus, enhancing the risk. Therefore, farmers\u27 requirement for agricultural information changes qualitatively. Presently almost all the extension services are provided by public sector except for a few attempts by private companies and NGO\u27s. It has been seen \u27that public sector extension services are not fully equipped to meet the new challenges. This is due to the non-availability of specialists with various state department
Predictive Factors of knowledge level of beel user on sustainable development of beel fisheries
Get PDFIn the eastern states of India, the flood plain wet lands are locally known as beef. They constitute an important fishery resource. Among the Indian states, Assam has the maximum number of beefs associated with river Brahmaputra and Barak (Sugunan and Bhattachrjya, 2000). Srivastava and Bhattacharjya (2003) stated that Assam beefs are the most potential and lucrative water resource because they contribute 49.45 per cent of total flood plain wetlands of the country. However, its existing production is a mere 1 73kg.ha·1 year·1 against the estimated production potential of 1000-1500kg.ha·1 year-
Project Atmapratistha : an Inspiring Public Private Partnership in Assam
Get PDFImplications of WTO have provided new dimensions to farmers\u27 needs, which are changing and diversifying from the age old need for food. Traditional public extension system suffers from many limitations and is not fully capable of keeping pace with the changing scenario. The gaps are expanding day by day and need to be bridged by participation of private sector in the extension process. Therefore, Public-Private Partnership is gaining momentum in agricultural developmen